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Overview* Examines the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul of Africa, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious * Draws on archaeology, DNA research, history, and depth psychology to reveal how the biological and spiritual roots of religion and science came out of Africa * Explores the reflections of our African unconscious in the present confrontation in the Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern psychospirituality The fossil record confirms that humanity originated in Africa. Yet somehow we have overlooked that Africa is also at the root of all that makes us human--our spirituality, civilization, arts, sciences, philosophy, and our conscious and unconscious minds. In this extensive look at the unfolding of human history and culture, Edward Bruce Bynum reveals how our collective unconscious is African. Drawing on archaeology, DNA research, depth psychology, and the biological and spiritual roots of religion and science, he demonstrates how all modern human beings, regardless of ethnic or racial categorizations, share a common deeper identity, both psychically and genetically--a primordial African unconscious. Exploring the beginning of early religions and mysticism in Africa, the author looks at the Egyptian Nubian role in the rise of civilization, the emergence of Kemetic Egypt, and the Oldawan, the Ancient Soul, and its correlation with what modern psychologists have defined as the collective unconscious. Revealing the spiritual and psychological ramifications of our shared African ancestry, the author examines its reflections in the present confrontation in the Americas, in the work of the Founding Fathers, and in modern Black spirituality, which arose from African diaspora religion and philosophy. By recognizing our shared African unconscious--the matrix that forms the deepest luminous core of human identity--we learn that the differences between one person and another are merely superficial and ultimately there is no real separation between the material and the spiritual. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward Bruce Bynum , Linda James Myers , Edward Bruce BynumPublisher: Inner Traditions Audio Imprint: Inner Traditions Audio Edition: 3rd Edition, Unabridged, Revised Edition of The African Unconscious ISBN: 9781644115206ISBN 10: 1644115204 Publication Date: 15 February 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Downloadable audio file Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsFigures Foreword to the 2021 Edition by Linda James Myers, Ph.D. A Note from the First Edition by Allen E. Ivey Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Diaspora, or the Great Dispersion Prologue: The African Origin of Human Consciousness Waves of Hominids and Their Stock Diaspora into the Ancient Americas The Rise of Civilization: The Egypto-Nubian Legacy The Emergence of Kemetic Egypt and Its Contact with Other Peoples: Asia, Mesopotamia, Olde Europe, and West Africa The Diaspora into the Americas during Early Civilization The Dark Ages and Medieval Europe Dispersion, Genetics, and the Mother Tongue Summary 2 The African Unconscious Oldawan: The Ancient Soul The Nature of the Unconscious Some Basic Tenets of the African Unconscious Summary 3 The Roots of Modern Science and Religion in Ancient Egypt Medicine, Mathematics, and Astronomy The Rise of the Modern Religions in Ancient Egypt Contemporary Science and the Ancient Ideas of Fire and Energy 4 Kundalini and the Spread of African Mysticism Kundalini and the Religious Traditions Kundalini in History and Science History and the Neters of Egypt The Bodily Perception of the Living Current Psychoneurology and the Solar Logos 5 The Osirian Complex To Bind Them in Myth The Family of Human Myths The Osirian Myth, the Osirian Journey Implications of the Osirian Complex in Culture Summary 6 The African Religions in Their Diaspora to the West Roots in Kemetic Egypt West African Religions in Their Diaspora Ethnic Diaspora to the West Ifa, the Unconscious, and the Implicate Order Storehouse Memory A Science of Divine Communion: The Psychospiritual Dynamics of Embodiment or Possession The West African Psychology of Religion Mediums, Diviners, and Their Forms of Spirit Possession Training and Initiation Summary 7 Freud, Judaism, and the Limits of Psychodynamic Insight The Jews of Ancient Egypt: Three Theories of Origin Jews in the Americas Familial Patterns and the Cognitive Style of Psychodynamic Thinking Root Techniques of Psychoanalysis and Mysticism Insights of Psychoanalysis Some Parallels between Jewish Mystical Thought and Ancient Kemetic Egypt Summary 8 The Present Confrontation in the Americas The Milieu of Race in the New World Reflections of Black Imagery in the New World Nurturing Images of Blackness in Eurocentric Cultures Menacing Images of Blackness Blacks' Perceptions of Whites in the Americas The Seeds of Black Spirituality in Slave Religion and Philosophy Our African Unconscious as Expressed in the Work of the American Founding Fathers 9 The Rudiments of Kemetic Philosophy in African/Indian Yoga Science The Serpentine Symbol and the Solar Consciousness Yoga Discipline, the Living Darkness, and the Light Basic Principles of the Transcendental Discipline The Evolutionary Force Operative Today A Paradigm of Spiritual Energy: Body, Breath, and Cosmos; The Km Wirian Synthesis The Multiplicity of Paths Our Unfolding Afrogenetic Paradigm Nexus: The Living Earth, the Body, and the Stars APPENDIX A Principal West African Yoruba Deities (Orisha) and Their Expressions in the Americas APPENDIX B The Ten Plagues of Moses APPENDIX C Partial List of Dances of African American Origin References Index About the AuthorReviewsThe scope of the author's knowledge is simply awesome. . . . For those who entertain notions of collective unconscious and deep-structure racial messages, I cannot think of a better text that navigates such thinking. * William E. Cross Jr., Ph.D., author of Shades of Black * Human biology originally found its footing in Africa and spread geographically outward. Bynum makes a comprehensive argument for Africa's primal influences on human consciousness evidenced in the spiritual outlook and practices of ancient cultures worldwide. * Laird Scranton, author of Sacred Symbols of the Dogon * What Bynum has accomplished in pulling together such a mammoth body of knowledge and research into one cogent volume and theme is remarkable. . . . A contribution of this magnitude seldom comes once in a decade. * Linda James Myers, Ph.D., author of Understanding an Afrocentric World View * Our African Unconscious is indeed a daring work and a unique contribution to African diasporic studies. It is a must for all students of human psychology * Rowland Abiodun, coeditor of The Yoruba Artist * I read with awe this passionate, billiant, epic work. . . . One of the most exhuastive and revealing studies of Black and human origins I have ever seen. * Lee S. Sannella, M.D., author of The Kundalini Experience * The author of this book does a very comprehensive and compelling job of revealing the all too often neglected role that Africa played in the earliest stages of humankind's development. And that would not be just in regards to the fossil record evidence, but also our very humanity, of the emergence of civilization itself - that while Western thought tends to emphasize how civilization was spawned from the Greeks, Egypt, and various other Mediterranean cultures, we all have a deep connection to what he describes as a kind of primordial African unconscious. * Alternative Perceptions Magazine * Author InformationEdward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and former director of the behavioral medicine program at the University of Massachusetts Health Services. The 2005 recipient of the Abraham H. Maslow Award from the American Psychological Association and the author of several books, including Dark Light Consciousness, he is currently in private practice in Hadley, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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